No, this is actually some of the best level design I've seen in a Mario game in recent memory. This game was worked on by basically all of the senior designers at Nintendo, while NSMB2 was the product of newer Nintendo developers.

Nintendo Land has...blah, look it up yourself My favorite games so far are Luigi's Ghost Mansion and Takamaru's Ninja Castle.

@Gerlicky: I've only done singleplayer thus far, but as far as I'm aware, yes, you can only play as Mario or your Mii as P1.